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While exploring the campus, participants in a Legatum Leadership Forum have a surprise encounter and photo-op with Megan Smith (center), a member of the MIT Corporation and the former U.S. Chief Technology Office under President Obama.

African entrepreneurs visit MIT for leadership boot camp

The Legatum Center joined Zambezi entrepreneurs with MIT faculty, students, and stakeholders for a leadership forum around African prosperity.

December 11, 2018

Video from "The Laughing Room," an interactive installation at Cambridge Public Library, was shown live on monitors at Hayden Library and streamed online.

Inside "The Laughing Room"

An artificial intelligence-powered laugh track amuses and unsettles in interactive installations by Jonny Sun.

December 5, 2018

At a recent meeting, the MIT AI Ethics Reading Group debated options for teaching ethics in a traditional computer science curriculum. Postdoc Abby Jaques (left) is developing ethics modules that can be incorporated into existing coursework.

Student group explores the ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence

MIT AI Ethics Reading Group was founded by students who saw firsthand how technology developed with good intentions could be problematic.

November 27, 2018

MIT hosts China Summit, additional gatherings in Beijing

MIT faculty, leadership, alumni, and Corporation members engage with old and new friends of the Institute.

November 23, 2018

Artist Ai Weiwei (right) and Christina Yu Yu, the Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of the Art of Asia at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, examine Ai's pictorial autobiography “Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 1993 – 2003” at a recent launch event.

MIT Press launches Ai Weiwei's autobiography in photographs

Lively program with the author celebrates the release of “Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 1993 – 2003” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

November 21, 2018

Neural representations of task rules are maintained in the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for planning action.

How the brain switches between different sets of rules

When you slow down after exiting the highway, or hush your voice in the library, you’re using this brain mechanism.

November 19, 2018

Jessy Lin, an MIT senior double-majoring in electrical engineering and computer science and in philosophy.

I think, therefore I code

Senior Jessy Lin, a double major in EECS and philosophy, is programming for social good.

November 15, 2018

The keynote address at the second annual AI and the Future of Work summit was delivered by Rosalin Acosta, Massachusetts Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development.

Artificial intelligence summit addresses impact of technology on jobs and global economy

Speakers at the summit included Massachusetts Secretary of Labor Rosalin Acosta and former Google chairman Eric Schmidt.

November 15, 2018

A bottom-up view of the state

Embedded with street-level bureaucrats, political theorist Bernardo Zacka reveals the complex moral landscape civil servants must navigate.

November 14, 2018

“The college is our way of building a powerful framework and environment for research and collaborations that involve computing and that are occurring across disciplines," says School of Engineering Dean Anantha P. Chandrakasan, the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Bridge to the future of engineering

The School of Engineering’s faculty leadership weigh in on what the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing will mean for their students and faculty.

November 11, 2018

MIT students participating in the Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program include: (clockwise from top left) Haripriya Mehta, Rohil Verma, Christabel Jemutai Sitienei, Andy Wei, Gabriel Margolis, and Mattie Wasiak.

The many interfaces of computing

A roundup of MIT student research projects offers a glimpse of where computing is going next.

November 11, 2018

Ceremonial groundbreaking, left to right: Community Art Center Apprentice William Gallop, Community Art Center Executive Director Eryn Johnson, Aurora Flight Sciences CEO John Langford, Boeing CTO Greg Hyslop, MIT Provost Martin Schmidt, Cambridge Vice Mayor Jan Devereux, MIT Museum Director John Durant, and MIT Co-Director of Government and Community Relations Sarah Gallop

A ground-breaking mash-up

A new building at 314 Main Street for the MIT Museum, Boeing, and others brings Cambridge and MIT together for memorable HUBweek celebration.

October 23, 2018

From left to right: Brian Anthony, principal research scientist at SENSE.nano, director of the Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Program, and co-director of the Medical Electronic Device Realization Center; Ricky Lai, Linda Tang, and Maggie Zhu, representing the Tang family; Martin A. Schmidt, MIT provost; Edward Cunningham PhD ’09; and Jesús de Álamo, director of the Microsystems Technol...

Tang family gift supports MIT.nano, MIT Quest for Intelligence

$20 million gift names imaging suite in new facility, creates catalyst fund.

October 18, 2018

Provost's letter to the faculty about the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing

October 15, 2018

Letter to the MIT community regarding the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing